Cloak and Dagger Quotes

“Too bad. Game over. Insert new fucking quarter.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“There are two things about me you should know. Don't fight me, unless you're prepared to kill me. And don't kiss me, unless you're prepared to fuck me.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“What is your collective GPA for this year?”

“Not as high as I'd like it to be.”

Freud steepled his fingers in front of his mouth. “What about your parents?”

“I don't know. They haven't been in school for a while.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“This softening she sees in me isn't enough to make me affectionate, but it's just enough to render me inept. I can't give her what she wants — virtuousness — or what she needs — protection.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“I wasn't a complete bastard. If she liked to think she saw good in me, if she wanted to take credit for it, I'd let her. She deserved that much.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“The old wives' tale about cold showers is false: blasting your body with a couple gallons of ice water doesn't make you any less horny. It just makes you horny and cold.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“Please." I touched his shoulder and he swung around like I'd hit him. "I'm begging you."

"That's not begging. That's commanding with a please in front of it.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“What a joke, coming from a woman who worked for the fashion industry. Really. Starving yourself to fit into a size zero — why did that size even exist? Zero referred to the absence of something, but what did it mean in terms of a model's measurements? Her fat? Or her presence? How much could you cut away before the person herself vanished? It was hypocritical, that's what it was. I said as much, adding, “If you're so keen on me being healthy then you should have no problem accepting me for the way I am. That's what's healthy, Mom. Not being focused on all this freaky weight-loss stuff.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“You think you fucking know me? I'm an assassin. I kill people for a living. Good people, bad people, it makes no difference to me as long as I get paid." I spoke slowly, giving each word time to sink in. "And that girl you just sold out? She's the only thing in this world that makes me even remotely human.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“My captor grabbed me, digging his gloved fingers into my cheeks. His bloody gloved fingers. “I'm an assassin. I'm whatever the job necessitates.”
I could smell the blood; it smelled like old, dirty pennies. “Then you're a whore.”
“I'm a mercenary.”
“What's the difference?” I spat. “You sell your body for money and you have no morals.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“In her view, there were three
options for a woman. If you were beautiful, you got married. If you
were ugly, you became a nun. If you were beautiful and stupid, or
ugly and dishonorable, you became a whore.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“He'd been baiting me, yes, but there was more. He'd been almost…playful. It was tantamount to being rushed by a lion, and finding out it wanted to play fetch.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“Adrian had been felled by a Coach bag.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“Jesus had been betrayed for thirty pieces of silver. I'd betrayed myself for soap.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“Ça va. Nap time is over.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“If people are meant to live, they'll live. If not, more room for the rest of us.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“Because you're a sick fuck who tortures people!"

He wagged his finger at me. "You make it sound so simple. It isn't. Not at all. Torture covers a broad spectrum. The two main subgroups are physiological and psychological, but these can be divided into the subcategories of spiritual, emotional, physical, and sexual. Everyone has at least one weakness in at least one of these areas that can be exploited. Finding it only requires patience, and a suspension of societal norms.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“He traced my lower lip. I braced myself for the pain that was sure to follow because he was like a sadistic King Midas, turning everything he touched into pain.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“What does she see in him?"

"Power. Money." I might have imagined the pause. "Sex."

"That's disgusting."

"You asked. Don't ask things you don't want to know the answers to. I don't have time to argue. Can you walk?”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“You shouldn't be wandering around in
such a big city all by yourself. Even if it is Seattle.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“She looked stunned. “I feel like I don't know you anymore.” “You never did,” I replied, just as coolly. “You were always too busy thinking about who you would like me to be that you never thought to ask who I actually was.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“Mamá had always made it clear she believed girls who got raped deserved it. I hadn't done any of the things she said “bad” girls did, though. I didn't parade myself around in sluttish clothes and make untoward advances. But Mamá had been wrong about everything else so far, so maybe she'd been wrong about that, too. Maybe it didn't matter whether you were bad or good, prudish or wanton: maybe just being female was enough, for some men. Maybe, like so much else, it was only about control. But then why do I feel so guilty?”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“His mouth has always been like his ass — the most unbelievable shit comes out of it.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger